This article originally based on work done by Frontalot at Linkstationwiki.org

A benchmark is test that measures the performance of a system or subsystem on a well-defined task or set of tasks.
Benchmarks are often used to measure general things like graphics, I/O, computing (integer and floating point), etc., performance, but most measure more specific tasks like rendering polygons, reading and writing files, or performing operations on matrixes.

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CPU Benchmarks

The following results were obtained using nbench 2.2.2 All nbench results are in comparison to an AMD K6 233Mhz reference system.
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CPU

LS1 (PPC)

LS2 (MIPSel)

HG (PPC)

AMD (K6)

Clock Speed

200Mhz

400Mhz

266Mhz

233Mhz

Firmware

FreeLink 1.1

OpenLink 0.52b

FreeLink 1.11

Linux

Numeric Sort

0.75

0.79

1.01

1.00

String Sort

0.56

0.53

0.75

1.00

Bitfield

1.02

1.30

1.37

1.00

FP Emulation

1.11

1.08

1.49

1.00

Fourier

0.65

0.00

0.88

1.00

Assignment

0.83

1.17

1.13

1.00

Idea

1.34

2.50

1.80

1.00

Huffman

1.21

0.18

1.63

1.00

Neural Net

1.24

0.00

1.68

1.00

LU Decomposition

1.27

0.01

1.86

1.00

Memory Index

0.777

0.931

1.049

1.00

Integer Index

1.077

0.792

1.451

1.00

Floating-Point Index

1.009

0.004

1.400

1.00

TCP/IP Benchmarks

The following results were obtained netio 1.14. for the LS1, LS2 and netio 1.26 for the HG[3]

CPU

LS1 (PPC)

LS2 (MIPSel)

HG (PPC)

Clock Speed

200Mhz

400Mhz

266Mhz

Firmware

FreeLink 1.1

OpenLink 0.52b

FreeLink 1.11

TCP/IP Tx - 1 KByte

11,493 KByte/s

x

12,366 KByte/s

TCP/IP Tx - 2 KByte

11,474 KByte/s

x

14,020 KByte/s

TCP/IP Tx - 4 KByte

11,427 KByte/s

x

19,510 KByte/s

TCP/IP Tx - 8 KByte

11,294 KByte/s

x

19,629 KByte/s

TCP/IP Tx - 16 KByte

11,400 KByte/s

x

20,259 KByte/s

TCP/IP Tx - 32 KByte

11,492 KByte/s

x

21,342 KByte/s

TCP/IP Rx - 1 KByte

10,994 KByte/s

x

3,961 KByte/s

TCP/IP Rx - 2 KByte

11,280 KByte/s

x

5,676 KByte/s

TCP/IP Rx - 4 KByte

11,501 KByte/s

x

6,362 KByte/s

TCP/IP Rx - 8 KByte

11,526 KByte/s

x

7,169 KByte/s

TCP/IP Rx - 16 KByte

11,538 KByte/s

x

13,416 KByte/s

TCP/IP Rx - 32 KByte

11,577 KByte/s

x

15,707 KByte/s

Disk Benchmarks

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